Thursday, 9 May 2013
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Showcase films 08.05.13 ( May 8th)
21 and over: Mandeville Films: Indie
All stars: Vertigo Films: Indie
Chimpanzee:
Documentary
Dead man down:
Mainstream, IM global
Evil dead:
FilmDistrict Indie
Iron man 3: Marvel/ Paramount.
Mainstream
Oblivivion: Universal
Pictures, main stream
Olympus has fallen: Millennium
films. Independent
The Croods: Dreamworks
animation
The look of Love: Film
Four, mainstream
The place beyond the
pines: Focus Features, mainstream
Thursday, 2 May 2013
To what extent does the Internet piracy pose a threat to the film industry
Piracy has always been always been a issue for the film industry, but now in our contemporary society, Internet piracy is the biggest the industry has ever seen.
The way morden technology is evolving means that any thing the film industry are doing to prevent piracy such as putting the films in stereoscopic 3D are not working, as the technology Is being developers that allows people to pirate them still. People can still pirate the film from torrent websites such as pirate bay and torrent hound, these websites are seen as organised crime so they get shut down occasionally by the FBI. But it is not long before the websites are up and running again.
Piracy also make it easier for people to watch films from home, so they can watch it with there friends and family. Piracy is most common with people of younger generation. The reasons behind this is due to fact they are to young to see the films in the cinema, so they resort to piracy to watch them and they can have there friends round and make an event of it.
As piracy is organised crime, the criminals make money from this, this is one of the biggest threats for the industry, as people are making money from the pirated films the industry are not making any money's from these film, this means people stop paying to see the film, this means a decline in film profit so this is why you can only see blockbusters at cinemas now a they know they are defiantly going to make money from then, they also release the films in 3D as well to body there revenues.
Internet piracy, has become a big problem to the industry, this mean they are losing money, and the problem with piracy is worse than it has ever been, just because of the Internet.
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Video nasties mock
The biggest fear in the 1980's was the video nasties and the fact people could more openly get these film at home. The fact people could get unregulated and uncensored films from home struck fear in to the government.
1980 saw a rose in home video with rises in sales in the VHS and the beta max. This drove the attendance of cinemas to an all time low. This was due to the fact people wanted to stay in at home and watch the films with friends and family, this made watching films more of a social event, at this time they could get any film they wanted due to the increase of video piracy. Piracy drove down the sales of beta max, as VHS was easier for people to copy and spreading the copies around.
Unregulated/video nasties films also arose at this point, this meant that people could get any film they wanted at home even if they had been banned from the cinemas, this meant that anyone of any age, any social status could watch these films, the four big video nasties of the time period were, evil dead, I spit on your grave, last house in the left and driller killer.
These video nasties gave the government a life line to have something to blame on the way the people were reacting to thatchers policies and the miners strikes, the government blamed this on the fact they could see anything and the video nasties were corrupting the nation.
The 80's saw the arrival of the BBFC. The British board of film classification, they started to protested about the video nasties and eventually started to get regulation on home videos.
In the end, the ban in the video nasties has not effected us to this day, I believe that films should not be censored as no a days we have be come de-sensitised, to the thing we see in films. As no we can see anything we want though the Internet.
1980 saw a rose in home video with rises in sales in the VHS and the beta max. This drove the attendance of cinemas to an all time low. This was due to the fact people wanted to stay in at home and watch the films with friends and family, this made watching films more of a social event, at this time they could get any film they wanted due to the increase of video piracy. Piracy drove down the sales of beta max, as VHS was easier for people to copy and spreading the copies around.
Unregulated/video nasties films also arose at this point, this meant that people could get any film they wanted at home even if they had been banned from the cinemas, this meant that anyone of any age, any social status could watch these films, the four big video nasties of the time period were, evil dead, I spit on your grave, last house in the left and driller killer.
These video nasties gave the government a life line to have something to blame on the way the people were reacting to thatchers policies and the miners strikes, the government blamed this on the fact they could see anything and the video nasties were corrupting the nation.
The 80's saw the arrival of the BBFC. The British board of film classification, they started to protested about the video nasties and eventually started to get regulation on home videos.
In the end, the ban in the video nasties has not effected us to this day, I believe that films should not be censored as no a days we have be come de-sensitised, to the thing we see in films. As no we can see anything we want though the Internet.
Thursday, 14 March 2013
The phenomenon as a contributing factor in the rise of block buster
The contributing factors to the rise of the blockbusters would have the been the cineplex phenomenon, that rose at the same time. Also the rise in technology and the special effects. All the blockbusters seem to come under the same genre. Space opera, slapstick comedy's remakes, slashers and films from people's youths and films that always have Heros. This brought a rise of Cop tv shows int the 80,s telly another thing it sported was a series of movie such as dance films
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
How the cineplex change the in film distributions
The cineplex rose around the same time as the films known as "blockbusters". (Being films that had budgets of millions of pounds put in to the and garnered to get the money back). The main way the cineplex effected the distribution of films is because people thought with the massive cineplex with there 15 plus screens people would get a choice of 15 films, but in reality this isn't what happened. What really happens was that the success of the cineplex's forced all the little independent cinemas started to shut down, as the cineplex's only showed the most popular films on a staggered time table, which were mainly the blockbusters so this brought the independent film distribution down. Another thing that canted the film distribution industry was the rise of the VHS so it was cheaper for people to rent the films and watch them from home than pay out to go see them at the cinema, this almost killed the industry at one point, also video piracy also increased at the time of the rise of the cineplex, so people were also buying the fake videos instead of going to see them at the cinema.
Thursday, 14 February 2013
Location report
I've had a lot of trouble getting a photo if my location
But it will involve a police office from the 1980's, will large panel windows down the side with cheap blinds, a single light bulb, with a miasma in the air in the room and every thing has been stain by tobacco, will be fitted with an old dented oak desk, plastic deck chair and a filing cabinet. I have got my idea for location from life on mars and ashes to ashes.
But it will involve a police office from the 1980's, will large panel windows down the side with cheap blinds, a single light bulb, with a miasma in the air in the room and every thing has been stain by tobacco, will be fitted with an old dented oak desk, plastic deck chair and a filing cabinet. I have got my idea for location from life on mars and ashes to ashes.
Location report
I've had a lot of trouble getting a photo if my location
But it will involve a police office from the 1980's, will large panel windows down the side with cheap blinds, a single light bulb, with a miasma in the air in the room and every thing has been stain by tobacco, will be fitted with an old dented oak desk, plastic deck chair and a filing cabinet. I have got my idea for location from life on mars and ashes to ashes.
But it will involve a police office from the 1980's, will large panel windows down the side with cheap blinds, a single light bulb, with a miasma in the air in the room and every thing has been stain by tobacco, will be fitted with an old dented oak desk, plastic deck chair and a filing cabinet. I have got my idea for location from life on mars and ashes to ashes.
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Representation
In both children of men and V for vendetta, representation is feature heavily, and both films have heavily influenced by woman and men but the films have the opinions of society and are distopian so this themes featured are what will happen to us if we keeping going this way.
In both films, woman appear and men act, but in V for vendetta it goes against this as the films goes on as Evey is there at the start to look at but becomes more masculine when V tortures Her and shaves her hair it seems to take her away her femininity and she seems to be reborn as a more masculine woman. Where as in children of men the role of woman in the film is to act as they can not have children any more and in the terms of society they are useless as woman are only to carry children and provide the next generation, the infertility of women has caused all the woman and society in the world of film to become hyper masculine, a good example of this is Theo's ex wife Julian as she had lost a child in past, now she doesn't have any feminine trates.
Both of the films also represent with the final girls which you normally find in slasher films, but they have trates such as they are religious, are virgins and stay alive in the hole film. The only one both the main female characters meet in children of men and V for vendetta is the fact they are both still alive at the end of the films, but you can argue that Evey dies half way through V as she is reborn as a seemingly new character. Kee compleatly contrasts the final girl as she is defiantly not a virgin. Also Evey has a high possibility of not being a virgin as you are show her getting ready to go to her bosses house to have sex with him. So the representation of the final girl is compleatly contrast to the original one that is shown in slasher films.
Both films have male Heros in them, in V for vendetta it is the character of V and children of men theo. they are not your stereotypical hero's as V Is the main cause of disruption in the film and his motives are mainly revenge and the fact he kills people aswell, in brutal ways by stabbing them and only weapon he uses are knifes that can be seen as phallic imagery and he only the knifes to kill me could be linked in to his sexuality although he kisses Evey, but the reason he got his powers were because he was taken to one of the concentration camps for homosexuals, so the knifes could symbolise something to do with his past. We're a theo is compleatly opposite as he doesn't kill anyone, and always walks away from trouble and not never starts it so can be seen as a coward. Really the only heroic trate they share is the fact they both give there life to save the people.
In conclusion both of these film do not really live up to the stereotypes of representation of he characters so they compleatly go against it.
In both films, woman appear and men act, but in V for vendetta it goes against this as the films goes on as Evey is there at the start to look at but becomes more masculine when V tortures Her and shaves her hair it seems to take her away her femininity and she seems to be reborn as a more masculine woman. Where as in children of men the role of woman in the film is to act as they can not have children any more and in the terms of society they are useless as woman are only to carry children and provide the next generation, the infertility of women has caused all the woman and society in the world of film to become hyper masculine, a good example of this is Theo's ex wife Julian as she had lost a child in past, now she doesn't have any feminine trates.
Both of the films also represent with the final girls which you normally find in slasher films, but they have trates such as they are religious, are virgins and stay alive in the hole film. The only one both the main female characters meet in children of men and V for vendetta is the fact they are both still alive at the end of the films, but you can argue that Evey dies half way through V as she is reborn as a seemingly new character. Kee compleatly contrasts the final girl as she is defiantly not a virgin. Also Evey has a high possibility of not being a virgin as you are show her getting ready to go to her bosses house to have sex with him. So the representation of the final girl is compleatly contrast to the original one that is shown in slasher films.
Both films have male Heros in them, in V for vendetta it is the character of V and children of men theo. they are not your stereotypical hero's as V Is the main cause of disruption in the film and his motives are mainly revenge and the fact he kills people aswell, in brutal ways by stabbing them and only weapon he uses are knifes that can be seen as phallic imagery and he only the knifes to kill me could be linked in to his sexuality although he kisses Evey, but the reason he got his powers were because he was taken to one of the concentration camps for homosexuals, so the knifes could symbolise something to do with his past. We're a theo is compleatly opposite as he doesn't kill anyone, and always walks away from trouble and not never starts it so can be seen as a coward. Really the only heroic trate they share is the fact they both give there life to save the people.
In conclusion both of these film do not really live up to the stereotypes of representation of he characters so they compleatly go against it.
Friday, 1 February 2013
feed back for screen play
Relationships
More depth in to why the characters why the characters are there. What they are doing, show more of a relationship between the characters in the scene.
How it moves story on
Its starts to develop in to my Macro aspect, if you keep reading the script but in the part i show here it doesn't quite get there.
Communication of macro
shows why the character has no solace, in the original films
How real is it
I think that my story is real and believable
key improvement
more depth in to character relationships
key improvement
more depth in to character relationships
Friday, 25 January 2013
Thursday, 17 January 2013
film pitch
For my textual analysis study, I chose narrative and my study was the construction of a hero. To cover this in my film idea I am going to show how he became an orphan and why he is so cold hearted to everyone and shows no solace towards people, this is why he is the perfect killer
Monday, 7 January 2013
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